A reference source for up-to-date information on people of influence and interest. It contains over 30,000 biographies, approximately 1000 which are new entries. It lists people in all walks of life: the arts and sciences, business and finance, charities, the church, the civil service, education, entertainment and sport, government, the law, local government, the media, medicine, professional institutions and the trade unions. Each entry is updated both from information supplied by biographees and from many individual sources of reference.